« Voilà un saint Étienne…, il n’y a pas d’enfant qui ne le reconnoisse » ! L’imagerie de la sainteté chez Charles Perrault : entre spiritualité, poétique et esthétique

Les Dossiers du GRIHL

关键词: aesthetics;    image-belief system;    Perrault (Charles);    poetics;    recognition;    sanctity;   

DOI  :  10.4000/dossiersgrihl.6381

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

There are many ways to represent saints in the literary hagiographical adaptations of the 17th century. The saint’s image is unrecognisable in the framework of the chosen genre (tragedy, epic, novel): the challenge from now on is to recognise the saint. We would like to show how this recognition difficulty is due to the combination of three meanings of what we call "identification": the spiritual identification (how the saint is the Catholic saint of the Catholic Reformation), the literary technical identification (according to the Aristotelian anagnorisis), the aesthetical identification (the work of art as a source of pleasure). Relying on some examples from Charles Perrault’s work, we will consider the birth of a modern conception of the saint’s image, as a sign of an indecision between religion and fiction, at the heart of the belief systems at the beginning of the 18th century.

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